16:9 Podcast Series, John Wang, IAdea July 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, John Wang, the CEO of Taipei-based IAdea, talks about the roots of his company, which primarily makes commercial-grade media players and all-in-one devices for the digital signage market. He recalls starting up the business right out of school in Taiwan, and unfortunately timing that startup right when the first Internet bubble burst. Wang …
How Managed Wireless Lets Digital Signage Networks Cut The Cord June 6, 2016 by Loren Bucklin Guest Post: Curtis Tilly, Microspace Connectivity is the unsung hero of digital signage, making possible the whole idea of delivering the right message at the right time, in the right location, to the right audience. On-screen content, media delivery, file forwarding and system monitoring all depend on taking a reliable, scalable and cost-effective approach to …
Seneca Sets Starting Price For Its Rugged PC Sticks At $275 May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Seneca has now launched and fixed a $275 USD starting price on its industrialized take on the notion of PCs on sticks. The Seneca HDS media stick is ruggedized, fanless and will do a single output of 1080p HD at 60 frames per second. What sets it apart from less expensive PC sticks by Intel and …
Acer Adding Digital Signage To Its Bring Your Own Cloud Offer May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. It pushed out a lengthy press release this week that I can’t really make much sense of, except that “BYOC plays …
Seneca Hosting Webinar On New Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Stick PC April 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. There are lots of Android sticks on the market, …
Seneca To Debut Purpose-Built HD Digital Signage Stick In April March 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes HDMI media sticks have been around for a few years now – ranging from dodgy stuff that comes over by sea from Shenzhen to more credible offers like the Dell Cloud Connect stick (ARM/Android) and the Asus Chromebit (ARM/ChromeOS). Intel has been touting a Compute Stick that runs a PC x86 processor, but the reviews …
How Amazon’s Dragon Boat Could Disrupt The Digital Signage Eco-System February 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Online shopping giant Amazon is reportedly planning to build out a global e-commerce and supply-chain network that would – among many, many things – make buying digital signage hardware from China about as easy as ordering consumer items. That matters in the context of the signage eco-system because right now the main option for buying …
Mvix Launches All-In $259 Digital Signage Player & Software Bundle September 23, 2015 by Dave HaynesThe Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. Dubbed Xhibit Mykro, the set-up is an Intel Bay Trail-based player and Mvix’s cloud-based XhibitSignage software, which can be managed and updated over the Internet, supports HTML5 media playback, and has the …
Intel Releasing Ubuntu Linux Compute Stick; Specs Not Encouraging July 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in …
Leap Motion Used As Portable Touchscreen Demo July 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes When the Leap Motion came out there was quite a bit of curiosity in this sector as to whether it could be used as a low-cost but effective alternative to expensive touchscreen overlays and add-ons. I ordered one, and tried it out, and was fairly underwhelmed by its capabilities. Then it sat on my desk …
